Talking the talk
European Day of Languages
The Briadhurst High modern languages department celebrated the European Day of Languages with pupils taking part in a variety of activities.
S1 pupils engaged in an inter-house ‘Who Want to Be a Millionaire?’ competition in French, with the winners being Morven House who reached a million euros.
S1 also made a wall mural of a sea of hands, each depicting a country with words of its language adorning the fingers.
In addition, they completed a quiz about famous European scientists made up by Biology teacher, Miss Watson.
S2 worked in pairs to create a poster of a European country of their choice. They used ipads to research geographical, historical, cultural and culinary facts about the country, as well as some of the language.
S3 and S4 pupils had great fun in the home economics department making French pancakes.
Other cross- curricular activities included an S2 French boules championship carried out in the PE department by Mr Egan; an introduction to French mime delivered by Mrs Reilly in the drama department; and Mrs Kinnaird of the English department organised a ’French words used in the English language’ group activity with her S1 class and excellent posters made by the pupils were displayed in the corridors.
In addition, the very brave Dr Gardner delivered a lesson in French to his National 5 chemistry class and PT science, Mr Campbell, taught a biology lesson in French to his Higher class.
Mrs Ballantyne incorporated German words and phrases into her teaching of the ‘World War 1’ topic with S2 and Mrs Hunter set her pupils a set of Maths challenges.
In the IT department, pupils played the online game ‘ Kahoot’ in French and showed themselves to be extremely engaged, enthusiastic and competitive.
Under the guidance of Miss Lennox, pupils with English as their second language produced guides to their country of birth and their mother tongue.
Pupils who attend the Hub played French and German games organised by Mrs Currie and were treated to a French breakfast. North Lanarkshire’s Schools’ Pipe Band’s
Braidhurst pupil Darci Burns, who is a member of North Lanarkshire’s Schools’ pipe band, was recently credited with an award at a reception outside the Civic Centre as her band won the Champions of Champions’ title for the best performances across all five major piping championships.
The North Lanarkshire’s Schools’ pipe band have also been given the proud honour of marching down 6th Avenue in New York City as part of the annual celebration of Scottish culture in the Big Apple next April. Connections Festival
Braidhurst recently hosted their very first Connections Festival which celebrated Literacy and Health and Wellbeing over three days and involved every young person in S1 to S3.
They participated in a range of events, including a series of fun and informative The butcher boy logo is hidden on page Name Address Contact tel: author sessions from novelists Alex Nye, Kirkland Ciccone, and Philip Caveney.
It was an action-packed few days for pupils and was only made possible by funding gratefully received from the Pupil Equity Fund.